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Category: Business
New podcast product
Last month, Hillsborough-based Adam & Eve launched a series of 32 podcasts called “Friday Night Fun†on iTunes and 30 other podcasting directories.
Carrboro business debuts
Modern Fossil, Carrboro’s newest retail business, kicked off its grand opening on Aug. 13 with champagne and hors d’ourves.
Friends of downtown hosts talk on U Square plans
This month’s Friends of Downtown discussion features Gordon Merklein, UNC’s executive director of real estate development, and representatives from Cousins Properties, which is working with the university to redevelop University Square.
Business after hours
The newly remodeled Chapel Hill Tire on Main Street in Carrboro will be the venue for Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce’s monthly Business After Hours.
UPS Store offers carbon-neutral shipping
The UPS Store at Carrboro Plaza announced earlier this month that customers now have the option to neutralize the climate impact of shipping their packages by selecting the store’s carbon-neutral option.
Solar array dedication
Duke Energy, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Hillsborough chambers of commerce and the Maple View Agriculture Center will hold a dedication for a new solar field at Maple View next Thursday at 9:30 p.m. at the agriculture center on Dairyland Road.
Economic malaise persists
By Margot C. Lester, Columnist With unemployment continuing and credit markets remaining tight, the folks in charge of the balance sheet are understandably pessimistic. This according to the Quarterly Economic Outlook Survey by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. The survey polled 1,584 CPAs serving as financial executives (CEOs,…
Locopops expands
You may already have seen the serve-yourself Locopops freezers at the three Weaver Street Market locations. Now you’ll be able to get Loco on the UNC campus. Founder Summer Bicknell inked a deal with UNC Dining to operate a cart on campus. “We’re effectively moving our Franklin Street store to the Pit,†Bicknell reports. The…
Wootini moves
Gallery and boutique Wootini has relocated to 110 Lloyd St., sharing a building with The Merch and MiniCassetteTees.com. According to owner Michael Maher, the move will allow Wootini to extend its hours later into the evening and potentially do some exhibitions al fresco. No word yet on when the new space will be open for…
Local techcos active
Three Chapel Hill technology companies made news this month. Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, “achieved positive safety and tolerability results†in the initial clinical trial of its heart-failure therapy, CXL-1020. The compound is for the treatment of patients with acute decompensated heart failure, which results in more than one million hospitalizations in the…
BIZ BEAT: Mid-year economic outlook
Back in January, I surveyed a handful of local business owners to find out what they thought 2010 had in store for their enterprises. Now that we’ve hit the mid-point of 2010, I wondered how things were going.
Lending workshop
The UNC Center for Civil Rights will hold a brown bag lunch on responsible lending led by Nikitra Bailey, executive vice president for external affairs for the Center for Responsible Lending.
Get listed
Don’t miss your chance to have your Carrboro-based enterprise listed in the annual Carrboro Business and Resource Guide.
Leadership program now enrolling
Leadership Triangle’s Personal Leadership Development Class is enrolling candidates for its next session beginning Sept. 23.